Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide.

The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached.

Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.

Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.

Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing. The mischief of it is that when they swell, they do not swell enough to burst.

I do not want to live under a philanthropy. I do not want to be taken care of by the government.... We do not want a benevolent government. We want a free and a just government.

To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.